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extinguishments

extinguishments is the plural of extinguishment.

Meaning of extinguishment

Noun

extinguishment (countable and uncountable, plural extinguishments)

  1. The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
    • […] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]1868, Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre
  2. The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.

Questions about extinguishments

What is extinguishments the plural of?
Extinguishments is the plural of extinguishment.

Words near extinguishments in the dictionary

  1. extinguishest
  2. extinguisheth
  3. extinguishing
  4. extinguishings
  5. extinguishment
  6. extinguishments
  7. extinguisht
  8. extIPA
  9. extirp
  10. extirpability
  11. extirpable

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